{"id":8870,"date":"2013-10-07T10:45:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=8870"},"modified":"2013-10-07T10:45:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:45:43","slug":"a-travelers-advisory-from-the-town-of-no","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/a-travelers-advisory-from-the-town-of-no\/","title":{"rendered":"A Traveler&#8217;s Advisory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The main streets of towns<br \/>\ndon\u2019t go uphill,<br \/>\nand the houses aren\u2019t<br \/>\npurple like that<br \/>\ntenement with one eye<br \/>\nclapboarded over. Never mind<br \/>\nhow it wavers<br \/>\nbackward, watching you<br \/>\ntry to find second gear.<br \/>\nYou\u2019ve arrived<br \/>\nat the top of the town:<br \/>\na closed garage<br \/>\nwhere nobody\u2019s dog<br \/>\nsits, collarless,<br \/>\nand right next door<br \/>\na church that seems<br \/>\nto advertise Unleaded.<br \/>\nWho\u2019s hung this<br \/>\ngreat front door<br \/>\nabove no steps? No one<br \/>\nyou\u2019d know.<br \/>\nAnd what suspends<br \/>\nthe avalanche<br \/>\nof barn? Nothing,<br \/>\nand you will never<br \/>\nescape the bump,<br \/>\nlifting shiny with tar.<br \/>\nAnd you won\u2019t<br \/>\nneed the sign that says<br \/>\nyou are leaving Don\u2019t Blink,<br \/>\nCan\u2019t Dance,<br \/>\nor Town of No.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-8870\" data-postid=\"8870\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-8870 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main streets of towns don\u2019t go uphill, and the houses aren\u2019t purple like that tenement with one eye clapboarded over. Never mind how it wavers backward, watching you try to find second gear. You\u2019ve arrived at the top of the town: a closed garage where nobody\u2019s dog sits, collarless, and right next door a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8872,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8870\/revisions\/8872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}